NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GHANA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Ellen Serwaa Nee-Whang, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, where she will be serving concurrently as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna, Ms. Nee-Whang had been serving since November 2008 as the Ambassador of Ghana to Switzerland, with concurrent accreditation to Austria. She was appointed Chief Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana in October 2006 and served as Director for two years, having been named acting Chief Director in January 2006. For the five years prior to that appointment, from 2000 to 2005, she served as Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Mauritius, Seychelles, Swaziland and Lesotho.

This is Ms. Nee-Whang’s second posting to Geneva: from 1993 to 1997 she was Minister Counsellor/Head of Chancery at the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, where she represented her Government, inter alia, at the International Labour Organization and the Conference on Disarmament.

Ms. Nee-Whang received a B.A. with honours in English from the University of Ghana in Legon in 1973 and was awarded a diploma in International Relations from the same institution in 1977.

Born on 2 November 1952, Ms. Nee-Whang is widowed, with three children.


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